So, these three notes walk into a bar -- a G, an Eb, and a C.
The bartender looks up and says, "We don't serve minors."

The Eb leaves, and the other two have a fifth between them.

After a few drinks, the G is out flat, and the experience is diminished.

Eventually, the C sobers up, sees one of his friends missing, the other one passed out, and realizes to his horror that he's under a rest.

C is brought to trial, found guilty and convicted of contributing to the diminution of a minor.
C is sentenced to ten years of "DS without Coda" at the Paul Williams/Neil Sedaka Correctional Facility.

While in the Correctional Facility, C starts to play experimental jazz and becomes a free note just in time before a group of other notes are caught trying to break out in an ascending scale over the walls.